All Building Design articles in 12 January 2007

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  • RMJM has designed a six-storey HQ for the international investment and financial services group the Alliance Trust in Dundee
    News

    This Week

    2007-01-12T00:00:00Z

    This week in brief

  • Under construction in 2002.
    Technical

    Time Test

    2007-01-12T00:00:00Z

    Nigel Lea, an associate at Eric Parry Architects, revisits the Portland stone facades for the London Stock Exchange at 10 Paternoster Square, in the City of London

  • Swansea’s National Waterfront Museum has won the RIBA’s regeneration award.
    News

    Spotcheck

    2007-01-12T00:00:00Z

    This week: Wales

  • Penoyre & Prasad’s new Richard Desmond Children’s Eye Centre at Moorfield Eye Hospital image 1
    News

    Watch this space

    2007-01-12T00:00:00Z

    Penoyre & Prasad’s new Richard Desmond Children’s Eye Centre at Moorfield Eye Hospital in central London has reached practical completion.

  • Opinion

    Sink or swim

    2007-01-12T00:00:00Z

    As an architect and a resident of Hove I am strongly in favour of the King Alfred development and find “spoiler” campaigns such as the one mentioned in last week’s BD not only very annoying, but believe that this diversion has the potential to waste a huge amount time and ...

  • Opinion

    Salutary tale

    2007-01-12T00:00:00Z

    The big stick: Once upon a time there was a hardworking Cinderella organisation that had a big stick which helped specify, control and lead the building industry in producing good works. It was the local authority.

  • Cooper: One half of a happy couple.
    Opinion

    Pulling power

    2007-01-12T00:00:00Z

    I was most interested to read in your “Top 50 most powerful” list, that the most influential woman in architecture, Yvette Cooper, is married to someone who might possibly at some future point become chancellor.

  • Koolhaus: Bashing competitions.
    Opinion

    Star Rem’s whine misses the point

    2007-01-12T00:00:00Z

    Knowing of Rem Koolhaas’ provocatively radical pronouncements, I assumed your headline (News January 5) referred to some appeal for a boycott by super-starchitects of rapacious multi-national clients and their demands for gas-guzzling symbols of power across the globe. Or perhaps of architects’ willing co-operation with nasty regimes in places ...

  • Opinion

    Making a stand

    2007-01-12T00:00:00Z

    Your impressive list of the top 50 most powerful figures in British architecture (BD January 5) was selected by your expert panel on the basis of quite a broad criteria of social, political and economic responsibilities, among other duties.

  • Carey Jones Architects , £80 million student flat development in central Leeds, set to become the tallest in the UK at 37 storeys.
    News

    Learning tower

    2007-01-12T00:00:00Z

    Carey Jones Architects has secured planning permission for an £80 million student flat development in central Leeds, set to become the tallest in the UK at 37 storeys.

  • The library is one of Lambeth Palace’s most important buildings
    News

    Study will probe ‘the possible’ for Lambeth Palace

    2007-01-12T00:00:00Z

    Church of England managers have commissioned a new study to explore possible alterations to the “charmingly chaotic” Lambeth Palace, home of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2007-01-12T00:00:00Z

    Personally, I intend to stay in the closet. Or ‘nano-live-space’ as the estate agents say

  • News

    RIBA snubs housing summit

    2007-01-12T00:00:00Z

    Architects want campaigning institute, says biggest survey ever

  • News

    US tower engineer teams up to open London office

    2007-01-12T00:00:00Z

    The engineer behind the world’s tallest building, Thornton Tomasetti, has opened a London office.

  • News

    Plea to end loophole on listing

    2007-01-12T00:00:00Z

    Buildings damaged while awaiting assessment, says Victorian Society

  • News

    Key report puts design at heart of education

    2007-01-12T00:00:00Z

    Teachers are set to lead the way in the design of new schools as an influential panel of government advisers places architecture at the heart of sweeping changes proposed for the UK education system.

  • Martyn Ware
    Review

    Culture vulture

    2007-01-12T00:00:00Z

    This week Martyn Ware

  • News

    London's new cultural heart

    2007-01-12T00:00:00Z

    The sheer number and quality of schemes waiting to be built in Southwark will transform London’s oldest borough into a showcase for architectural talent.

  • Opinion

    RIBA should take a more critical stand

    2007-01-12T00:00:00Z

    Why wasn’t an architect present at this week’s widely publicised meeting between the construction industry and housing minister Yvette Cooper?

  • News

    EP/Housing Corp merger imminent

    2007-01-12T00:00:00Z

    The government is set to announce the merger of the Housing Corporation and English Partnerships into a “super quango” called Communities England.